What Has Changed Since Yoga Teacher Training

I remember stepping off my yoga mat one afternoon about a year ago, realizing that this was a practice I wanted to be able to share with others.

After traveling to the Sivananda Ashram in the Bahamas in January 2016, I fell in love with yoga, a practice that consists of much more than simply physical postures.

I dreamed of completing my training in the Bahamas and tried everything I could to go back and become certified.

However, dropping all of my responsibilities (school, work, family, etc.) for a month didn’t seem plausible, or even possible to me at the time. So I put it off.

After receiving a grant from my college for completing a research paper on meditation and yoga this past summer, I thought, what could be more appropriate than spending that money on my yoga teacher training?

I began researching studios in the city and came across Three Sisters Yoga.

I emailed the assistant director to sign up for a sample class and mistakenly sent the email from my student email address.

Turns out, the assistant director graduated from my college.

I attended the sample class a few weeks later, check in hand, not having researched any other studios to the extent I did this one because something felt right.

The moment I stepped into the studio, I knew what I was doing was right. I knew this was where I was supposed to be.

Before the class even started, I eagerly handed over my check and committed to the Winter 2018 Yoga Teacher Training.

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Six weeks and two hundred hours flew by.

From what I can recall off of the top of my head, we learned about the practice of yoga and the different postures, the yogic philosophy, read the Yoga Sutras and The Bhagavad-Gita (for the third time), went over proper alignment for postures, discussed anatomy and physiology, how to develop and create classes, the taxes involved and how to build a business, meditation, Ayurveda, and so much more.

My body was sore for weeks, in places I didn’t know could get sore, and I probably stretched more than I had when I was competitively running (oops!)

I woke up too early and stayed up too late, laughed way too much and cried just enough.

I met 15+ beautiful humans who were strangers a little more than six weeks ago, who I now consider family.

While the lessons we learned regarding yoga were second to none, I learned a lot more about myself than I thought possible.